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Showing 1 - 9 of 9 titles with a criteria of Subject is Basque Studies


Amerikanuak

More than half a century ago, many Basques left Spain to look for a better life working as sheepherders in the American West. In Amerikanuak, Nacho Reig looks at the lives of some of the last remaining Basque sheepherders in the United States.

Pragda Films | 2011 | 92 minutes

The Art of Cooking with Fire

Self-taught grill genius Bittor Arginzoniz shares his sources of inspiration and motivation in his world famous restaurant Asador Etxebarri in Spain.

Pragda Films | 2019 | 84 minutes

Asier and I

Asier and I follows Aitor as he ties to understand what could have led his childhood friend to join the terrorist group ETA. Armed with a camera, Aitor meets Asier upon his release from jail, ready to tell this story.

Pragda Films | 2013 | 93 minutes

Bertsolari

Bertsolaritza is an ancestral, completely improvised, form of Basque poetry. Anachronistic? Not at all: the bertsolari, with their spontaneous creation and wordplay, could be an inspiration for rappers and other improv artists.

Pragda Films | 2011 | 52 minutes

The Deer

Khalil is a rootless young man who lives in the city’s margins, spending his days with a poacher who shares a house with a brother he has not talked to for years. On the shores of the marsh, the tides mark the time for love and indifference, friendship and revenge.

Pragda Films | 2018 | 88 minutes

918 Nights

After spending 918 nights in prison, director Arantza Santesteban Pérez recounts her experience.

Caution: This film contains explicit sexual scenes. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.

Pragda Films | 2022 | 65 minutes

Two Breaths

The tale of two breaths: that of Iratxe Sorzabal and her mother, Mari Nieves Díaz. Each has suffered the lack of breath caused by torture, together with other kinds of suffering.

Pragda Films | 2022 | 58 minutes

When a Tree Falls (Amama)

This powerfully visualized drama of generational conflict signals the emergence of a vital Basque regional cinema in Spain.

Pragda Films | 2015 | 103 minutes

When You No Longer Love Me

While investigating her father's death, Laura learns of the Spanish hard times during the ETA's war against the Franquist Regime, and her family's possible involvement in those crimes.

Pragda Films | 2018 | 101 minutes